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$3.50 A Day Gets Her There And Back And Forth

Posted May 9, 2008 by Keith Morelli

Updated May 9, 2008 at 01:16 PM

We’re at the University Area Transfer Center, and Linda Grooms has it figured out. The HART bus schedule, that is.

“I take the Number 12 from Fletcher at 8 o’clock in the morning to come here and then catch the Number 6 to USF,” she says. “Or I take the Bull [the University of South Florida bus] onto campus.”

She works at USF and takes the bus every day to and from work.

And to and from doctors’ appointments.

And just about everywhere else she goes.

“I don’t have a car,” she says just before 10 a.m. today. “I got into three wrecks and am afraid of driving. Plus, gas is so high, it does me no good to have a car.”

She pays $3.50 every day, and that gives her a pass to go wherever she wants.